: an Indian dish of usually braised meat or vegetables cooked with spices and often yogurt or cream
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Silver Coin Indian Grill, another Hoover fixture, has vibrant vindaloos and kormas that are best sopped up with homemade naan bread.
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Bob Carlton, Southern Living, 16 Mar. 2026
Menu highlights include butter chicken, tikka masala, korma, naan and biryani.
—Eddie Fontanez, AZCentral.com, 4 Feb. 2025
Curry options include tikka masala, korma (cashew, almond and pistachio cream sauce), saag, coconut and vindaloo which can be had with chicken, lamb, shrimp, vegetables, or paneer.
—Greg Morago, Houston Chronicle, 29 Jan. 2020
On the menu: beef massaman curry, vegetarian korma and hundreds of sandwiches.
—Washington Post, 17 Jan. 2020
For a squash main course, the pea and pumpkin korma needs only a side of rice or flatbread to accompany it.
—Nik Sharma, SFChronicle.com, 22 Nov. 2019
Go with the lamb and beef meatball pizza ($17), where juicy nuggets of meat mix with a creamy korma gravy, melted mozzarella and sharp pickled red onions.
—Nick Kindelsperger, chicagotribune.com, 9 Oct. 2019
India isn’t represented in Epcot, so head to A’taj , just outside one of the resort’s southern gates, for kebabs, curries and kormas in a fairly opulent setting that belies its strip-mall address.
—Jim Webster, Twin Cities, 29 June 2019
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Bob Carlton, Southern Living, 16 Mar. 2026
Menu highlights include butter chicken, tikka masala, korma, naan and biryani.
—Eddie Fontanez, AZCentral.com, 4 Feb. 2025
Curry options include tikka masala, korma (cashew, almond and pistachio cream sauce), saag, coconut and vindaloo which can be had with chicken, lamb, shrimp, vegetables, or paneer.
—Greg Morago, Houston Chronicle, 29 Jan. 2020
On the menu: beef massaman curry, vegetarian korma and hundreds of sandwiches.
—Washington Post, 17 Jan. 2020
For a squash main course, the pea and pumpkin korma needs only a side of rice or flatbread to accompany it.
—Nik Sharma, SFChronicle.com, 22 Nov. 2019
Go with the lamb and beef meatball pizza ($17), where juicy nuggets of meat mix with a creamy korma gravy, melted mozzarella and sharp pickled red onions.
—Nick Kindelsperger, chicagotribune.com, 9 Oct. 2019
India isn’t represented in Epcot, so head to A’taj , just outside one of the resort’s southern gates, for kebabs, curries and kormas in a fairly opulent setting that belies its strip-mall address.
—Jim Webster, Twin Cities, 29 June 2019
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“Korma.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/korma. Accessed 30 Mar. 2026.
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